In this case, the discharge petition facilitated full-chamber consideration of a popular bill that leaders, for complicated coalition-maintenance reasons, would otherwise have not brought to the ...

MARISCO, Hawaii’s largest private shipyard, was the proving ground for a new test eliminating waste water discharge. Please note that Phase I involved only 45 minutes of treatment time while ...

The procedural motion, known as a discharge petition, allows a vote on any legislation, regardless of the input of House leadership, if it gets 218 signatures, representing a majority of the chamber.

It requires signatures from 218 members — a majority of the chamber — to force a vote on the floor, regardless of whether the speaker or majority leader wants that to happen.The first step in ...

House Democrats pushed forward on Wednesday with a procedural move that could force a vote to increase the debt limit should negotiations between President Biden and Republicans collapse, moving ...

A Helene relief bill that appeared stalled in one committee of the NC Senate has been move to another, perhaps improving chances of passage.